Andrea Molino - Biography

Biography

Andrea Molino studied in Turin, Milan, Venice, Paris and Freiburg. He lives in Zurich. In 1997, as Musical Director of the Pocket Opera Company in Nuremberg he conducted the world premiere of Alessandro Melchiorre's Unreported inbound Palermo and in 2000, the premiere of the stage version of Heiner Goebbels' Surrogate Cities. His own projects the smiling carcass (1999), based on the subject of advertising, and Those Who Speak In A Faint Voice (2001), on death penalty, both in collaboration with the Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani, are the first examples of his commitment towards innovative, multimedia oriented music theatre.

From 2000 to 2006 Andrea Molino was Artistic Director of Fabrica Musica, the music department of the Italian communication research center, Fabrica. As well as collaborating with musicians like Heiner Goebbels, David Moss, Koichi Makigami, and Phil Minton, his own projects have included VOICES, performed in October 2000 at the RomaEuropa Festival featuring previously unseen video material by Godfrey Reggio, and Drops On A Hot Stone, in collaboration with UN Volunteers, premiered in December 2001 at the Capitol in Rome after a preview in Berlin. CREDO, a multimedia music theatre on the theme of ethnic and religious conflicts was premiered in April 2004 at the Staatstheater Karlsruhe and then performed at the Stazione Termini in Rome with the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, on the occasion of the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates; in July 2005 it opened the Queensland Music Festival in Brisbane, Australia. His most recent multimedia music project with Fabrica, WINNERS, has been premiered, conducted by himself, on July 22, 2006 at the Brisbane Festival; the European premiere took place in October 2006 in Paris at the Grande Salle of the Centre Pompidou.

The multimedia staged concert "un Temps vécu, ou qui pourrait l’être" had its world premiere on June 6, 2008 at Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains, in Lille, where Molino was “Invited Artist” for the season 2007–2008.

2008 to 2010 Andrea Molino was Music Curator at the Fondazione Claudio Buziol in Venice. In October 2009, as Artistic Director of the World Venice Forum, he curated the Festival The Garden Of Forking Paths. In the closing concert at the Basilica dei Frari he conducted the Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice in his own multimedia concert Of Flowers And Flames, for the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster, in India. His latest project, Three Mile Island, on the nuclear accident in Pennsylvania in 1979, was first performed in March 2012 at the ZKM in Karlsruhe with the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart and the Klangforum Wien; the Italian Premiere followed at the Teatro India in Rome.

As a conductor, he recently debuted at the Sydney Opera House with Carlisle Floyd's Of Mice and Men and Verdi's Macbeth. He opened the 2010 concert season of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice with the world premiere of Bruno Maderna’s Requiem. At the Teatro La Fenice he had opened the 2005 edition of the Venice Music Biennale with Heiner Goebbels’ Surrogate Cities and he conducted the world premiere productions of Mosca’s Signor Goldoni (2007) and Ambrosini's Il Killer di Parole (2010). After his debuts at the Edinburgh International Festival – conducting the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and at the Wiener Konzerthaus with the Klangforum Wien he conducted a.o. The Queensland Orchestra at the Queensland Music Festival and the Brisbane Festival, the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Bochumer Symphoniker, the Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe, the Dresdner Sinfoniker, the Norddeutsche Philharmonie, the Klangforum Wien, the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, Staatstheater Darmstadt, Teatro Lirico in Spoleto, RomaEuropa Festival, Settembre Musica in Turin, Musik der Jahrhunderte in Stuttgart, Schauspielhaus Zurich (with the world premiere of Heiner Goebbels' Industry and Idleness, 2010), Music Biennale Zagreb, European Centre for the Arts in Dresden.

His compositions are published by RAI Trade (Rome), Nuova Stradivarius (Milan) and Ricordi (Milan). He has been recording with Naive (Paris), Stradivarius (Milan) and Dynamic (Genoa).